Taliban attackers storm police office in Afghan capital

Afghan Crisis Response Unit forces stand in formation during an exercise at their camp on the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday.

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A suicide bomber detonates his explosives at the entrance gate

Other heavily armed attackers storm inside the building

Afghan security forces launch operation to kill the insurgents

Part of the building catches fire amid the violence

Explosions and gun fire rang out across central Kabul on Monday morning after a group of Taliban insurgents stormed the headquarters of the city's traffic police, the second attack on a government office in the Afghan capital in less than a week.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance gate of the traffic police compound. Two or three other attackers then managed to charge inside the main building, armed with machine guns and more explosives, said Mohammad Ayoub Salangi, chief of Kabul Police.